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This impressive volume on Arizona mining covers many historical aspects from the mines to the minerals to the transportation and extraction methods. Hundreds of towns in Arizona owed their longevity or in many cases their ephemeral existence based upon the productivity of the local mines. And mining captivated the Native Americans, Spanish, Mexicans and later the great influx of American miners and pioneers who arrived in Arizona after the Gadsden...
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To Arizona cowpunchers, the Spanish word orejana refers to an ownerless, unbranded bovine old enough to quit it's mother, in other words a maverick. somehow that word evokes images of the legendary O RO Ranch north of Prescott, Arizona. Once a Spanish Land Grant, this outfit has a tangible mystique about it that everyone who ever worked or lived here feels. Journalist and photographer Kathey McCraine is one of the very few people ever allowed to photograph...
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